29.4743, FYI: Awards Reminder: ALT

Sat Dec 1 10:36:53 UTC 2018

LINGUIST List: Vol-29-4743. Sat Dec 01 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.4743, FYI: Awards Reminder: ALT

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Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2018 05:35:46
From: Kristine Hildebrandt [khildeb at siue.edu]
Subject: Awards Reminder: ALT

The Panini Award 2019:

At the 13th Biennial Conference in Pavia (September 4-6, 2019), the
Association for Linguistic Typology will award its fourth Panini prize, for
a doctoral dissertation and PhD thesis for which the evaluation procedures in
force have been successfully concluded (such as a thesis defense, viva,
written examination, according to the country) between January 1, 2015 and
December 31, 2018.

The Panini award was established to encourage and honour achievements in the
field of documenting the world’s linguistic diversity through the writing of
reference grammars. To be eligible, a grammar must provide a systematic,
accessible, comprehensive, original, insightful and typologically
well-informed account of the workings of the language being described,
generously exemplified with natural data. Though the normal expectation is
that it would deal with a hitherto little-described language, outstanding
grammars of better-known languages or dialects thereof may also be considered
if they achieve major breakthroughs in a comprehensive understanding of the
language. Grammars may be written in any major language, subject to the
availability of a sufficient and geographically balanced set of jury members
able to read the language. In order to be eligible for the prize, the author
must be (or become) a member of ALT.

Entries will be judged by a committee of distinguished linguists, including
judges who have themselves written major reference grammars as well as
typologists and other grammar-consumers. The chair for the 2019 award is
Hilary Chappell (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
at paniniaward2019 at gmail.com.

Please submit entries as .PDF files with embedded fonts. The deadline for
submission is UTC-12:00 December 15, 2018. However, as an international
organization, ALT recognizes that different countries have different timelines
and systems for the defense of dissertations, and that this deadline could
exclude some theses/dissertations that will be completed at the end of 2018.
Candidates for the award who will officially defend their dissertations by
December 31, 2018 should contact the award committee chair well in advance, by
December 1, 2018, if they would like to negotiate an alternate deadline that
can be no later than January 15, 2019. Candidates who are unsure of whether
the system for completing dissertations at their institutions makes them
eligible for this round of the award are also encouraged to contact the award
committee chair as soon as possible to verify their eligibility. Any questions
about submissions should be directed to the chair, Hilary Chappell directly.

The prize winner for the Panini award will receive paid travel, accommodation,
and registration at the ALT conference in Pavia. They will also be invited to
present a plenary lecture setting out the typologically most interesting
aspects of the language.

The Joseph Greenberg Award 2019:

The Association for Linguistic Typology's Joseph Greenberg Award recognizes
and honours the best piece of typological research embodied in a doctoral
dissertation or equivalent in 2017-2018. Theses are eligible if they were
defended by a university between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2018. The
award will consist of payment of travel, per diem expenses and registration
fee to attend the ALT XIII Conference, to be held in Pavia, Italy, September
4-6, 2019, and to present a synopsis or element of the prize-winning work as a
plenary lecture at that meeting. 

The Joseph Greenberg Award was named to remember Joseph Greenberg's
(1915-2001) fundamental contributions to typology and the interest he showed
in encouraging young researchers. Between 1998 and 2006, it was known as the
''ALT Junior Award''.

To be eligible, those submitting their dissertation must be members of the
Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT) or must join. They are asked to
submit their manuscript by email in .PDF format, with all non-standard fonts
in Unicode, to the Chair of the Jury. The general deadline for submission is
UTC-12:00 December 15, 2018. However, as an international organization, ALT
recognizes that different countries have different timelines and systems for
the defense of dissertations, and that this deadline could exclude some theses
that will be completed at the end of 2018. Candidates for the award who will
officially defend their dissertations by December 31, 2018 should contact the
award committee chair well in advance, by December 1, 2018, if they would like
to negotiate an alternate deadline that can be no later than January 15, 2019.
Candidates who are unsure of whether the system for completing dissertations
at their institutions makes them eligible for this round of the award are also
encouraged to contact the award committee chair as soon as possible to verify
their eligibility.

A jury, consisting of about ten ALT members, will be appointed by the award
committee chair, in consultation with ALT's President, appropriate to the work
submitted. 

The chair will be Peter Arkadiev (Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian
Academy of Sciences & RussianState University for the Humanities), and
submissions (in .PDF format) should be sent to this email
address: alpgurev at gmail.com. Queries may also be sent to the same email
address.

Linguistic Field(s): Typology

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